Millimages has sold the broadcast rights to four of its new animated properties to Australian broadcaster, ABC (Australian Broadcast Corporation). The programs included in the deal are HILLTOP HOSPITAL, CORNEIL & BERNIE, PIGEON BOY and JASPER THE PENGUIN. HILLTOP HOSPITAL is a 39 x 10-minute stop-motion animated series. Described as a "pre-school medical soap opera," the stories focus on a hospital that is run by animals, for animals. Both CORNEIL & BERNIE and PIGEON BOY are Millimages co-productions with France 3. CORNEIL & BERNIE is a 52 x 13-minute series in which a dog genius has his life turned upside down when his bumbling dog sitter, Bernie, discovers his true talents. The 26 x 26-minute PIGEON BOY tells a new type of superhero tale in which the ultimate antihero of Ultrapolis, Pigeon Boy, must save the city from crime. In the preschool series JASPER THE PENGUIN (52 x 5-minutes), a displaced penguin from the South Pole accidentally ends up on an ice cap that takes him to a city far from home. The show is a Millimages co-production with Toons'n'Tales, La Cinquième and WDR.
